--- trunk/chrisDissertation/Ice.tex 2006/09/08 16:13:21 3003 +++ trunk/chrisDissertation/Ice.tex 2006/09/18 20:32:11 3004 @@ -220,6 +220,14 @@ methods.\cite{Baez95b} parameter. This method has been shown to be reversible and provide results in excellent agreement with other established methods.\cite{Baez95b} + +The Helmholtz free energy error was determined in the same manner in +both the solid and the liquid free energy calculations . At each point +along the integration path, we calculated the standard deviation of +the potential energy difference. Addition or subtraction of these +values to each of their respective points and integrating the curve +again provides the upper and lower bounds of the uncertainty in the +Helmholtz free energy. Near the cutoff radius ($0.85 * r_{cut}$), charge, dipole, and Lennard-Jones interactions were gradually reduced by a cubic switching @@ -427,9 +435,9 @@ TIP5P-E & & & & - & \\ \cmidrule(lr){2-6} & \multicolumn{5}{c}{(kcal mol$^{-1}$)} \\ \midrule -TIP5P-E & & & & - & \\ -TIP4P-Ew & & -13.09(3) & & - & -12.98(3) \\ -SPC/E & -12.99(3) & -13.00(3) & & - & -12.99(3) \\ +TIP5P-E & -11.98(4) & -11.96(4) & & - & -11.95(3) \\ +TIP4P-Ew & -13.11(3) & -13.09(3) & -12.97(3) & - & -12.98(3) \\ +SPC/E & -12.99(3) & -13.00(3) & -13.03(3) & - & -12.99(3) \\ SSD/RF & -11.83(3) & -11.66(4) & -12.32(3) & -12.39(3) & - \\ TRED & -12.61(3) & -12.43(3) & -12.89(3) & -13.12(3) & - \\ \end{tabular} @@ -442,9 +450,36 @@ ice B is destabilized such that it is no longer nearly the same fashion; however Ice-$i$ and ice B are quite a bit closer in free energy (nearly isoenergetic). The free energy differences between ice polymorphs for TRED water parallel SSD/RF, with the exception that -ice B is destabilized such that it is no longer nearly isoenergetic -with Ice-$i$. +ice B is destabilized such that it is not very close to Ice-$i$. The +SPC/E results really show the near isoenergetic behavior when using +the electrostatics correction. Ice B has the lowest Helmholtz free +energy; however, all the polymorph results overlap within error. +The most interesting results from these calculations come from the +more expensive TIP4P-Ew and TIP5P-E results. Both of these models were +optimized for use with an electrostatic correction and are +geometrically arranged to mimic water following two different +ideas. In TIP5P-E, the primary location for the negative charge in the +molecule is assigned to the lone-pairs of the oxygen, while TIP4P-Ew +places the negative charge near the center-of-mass along the H-O-H +bisector. There is some debate as to which is the proper choice for +the negative charge location, and this has in part led to a six-site +water model that balances both of these options.\cite{Vega05,Nada03} +The limited results in table \ref{tab:dampedFreeEnergy} support the +results of Vega {\it et al.}, which indicate the TIP4P charge location +geometry is more physically valid.\cite{Vega05} With the TIP4P-Ew +water model, the experimentally observed polymorph (ice +I$_\textrm{h}$) is the preferred form with ice I$_\textrm{c}$ slightly +higher in energy, though overlapping within error, and the less +realistic ice B and Ice-$i^\prime$ are destabilized relative to these +polymorphs. TIP5P-E shows similar behavior to SPC/E, where there is no +real free energy distinction between the various polymorphs and lend +credence to other results indicating the preferred form of TIP5P at +1~atm is a structure similar to ice B.\cite{Yamada02,Vega05,Abascal05} +These results indicate that TIP4P-Ew is a better mimic of real water +than these other models when studying crystallization and solid forms +of water. + \section{Conclusions} In this work, thermodynamic integration was used to determine the